The Irish standard., 1887-12-03
CATHOLIC NEWS. .
Religious Notes.

lis dead.
Last Sunday, Nov. ~, was the frs
Sunday Of Advent.
All the Fridays of Advent are fasting
DAYS of obligation
Rev. n. McNabe Of Alameda, Cal.
will open parochial school soon.
At the beginning of the month d new
church was opened in Jersey, Channe'
islands.
The Peter Pence collection in the
CINCINNATI archdiocese furnishes total
OF $500
The Holy See has interdicted the use
of the Greek CROSS amongst the Catho~
lies OF Ruthenia.
Very Rev. Joachim Adams, Y. g., ct
San Francisco, will be in Rome during
the Fapal Jubilee.
The F'ranciscans have taken charge OF
the German parish in Denver. Father
Bende. goes to Pueblo.
The new home Of Little Sisters of the
Poor at Evansville. Ind, was dedicated
recently by Bishop Chatdad.
Rev. Hugh McDeyitt, lately The pas
tor of the Church Of the Sacred Heart,
Dayton. o., has Joined the Passionis.s.
Rev. A. r. Halpin, s. j., Of Boston
College, has returned from an extensive
missionary tour OF the Southern States.
It s stated that the Queen OF Sweden
desires to become a Catholic, and,
more over, that she. wishes to enter a
convent.
Rev. Anthony Farley Of ST. Monioa's
Church, Brooklyn, n, Y, who met with
i; severe accident not long age. has re-
covered.
4 Dominican father named Lazy re-
Gently conducted very, successful re-
treat in the Cathedral OF St. pionysius,
Athens, Greece
Twenty-Five Cree Indians conGued III
the Stoney Mountain penitentiary,
h1aDitoba, have become Catholics since
their incarceration.
Archbishop Ryan Of Philadelphia
and Bishop Ryan OF Buffalo. N. \ will
sail on the Alaska, Tuesday, December
Is, en- route for Rome.
Rev. Edward $. Keogh, priest OF the
Oratory OF St. Philip Neri, died at the
house OF his order i'll Bsompton, Lon
don, on the Goth ult.
Dom Pedro. Emperor of Brazil, and
the Enpress intend to go to the Hcly
Land soon. 'lheir visit will have the
character Of q pilgrimage
y leader in the Paris Figaro, of tho
Doth nit, vigorously advocated the III
teryention OF France in the restoration
of the temporal power of the Pope.
ln Ohio alone Father Cleary, the |
celebrated preacher OF temperance, nd |
minisrered the pledge to nearly 500 per-
sons during his recent tour OF that state.
The prospective new church of st.
Peters parish in Morristown, n. j.,
will cost Sll0, 600, If not more. Its
architecture will be fourteenth century
gothic.
Mr. j. Cowles, Of the Pomona, CAL,
Times Courier, has left Episcopalanjsm
for the true Church. Re was received
into the fold by the Rev. r. j. Fisher,
ot Pomona
They have ninety-si children in the
parish school at Florissant and sixteen
in the public school, Father Boex, s.
j., will never compromise with the
school board again.
Bishop Raimoundi, OF Hong Kong.
China. arrived few days ago in San
Francisco, on 4 visit to the United
States for the purpose Of collecting
funds for bis new Cathedral.
The Archbishop of Guatemala is now
in San Francisco Some letters, writ
ten evidently by South American Free
masons, have appeared lately in New
York daily papers misrepresentlng the
cause Of his exile.
A new church for German Catholics is
building in Orange, n. j. It is named
i'll honor of ST.. Venantius, and also in
compliment to the Right Rev. Bishop
Wigger, whose first rame is Winand-
the English Venantius
Father Heinen, the parish priest of
East Mauch Chunk, Pa, mas inaugu-
rated a crusade against the feminine
''bustle.'' He says that they are not
only unsightly and the production Of